Windows Server 2016 Unable to reinstall Defender or repair file corruption

No improvement with Defender but I determined it is only affecting the administrator account.
Logged in with 2 other accounts and was able to open defender from the settings interface.
I would consider that the least of my issues currently.
Right after the restart windows downloaded a Defender update. I installed it but when I checked for updates afterward, the same error 0x80070006
BITS is working again.
 

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Step 1:
Copy the file C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\cbs.log to your desktop.
Zip the copied file and attach the zipped cbs.log to your next reply.

Step 2:
Warning: This script was written specifically for this user, for use on that particular machine. Do not run this script on another machine.
  1. Download the attachment fixlist.txt and save it to your desktop.
  2. Right-click on FRST64.exe and select "Run as administrator".
  3. Press the Fix button.
  4. The tool will now process fixlist.txt.
  5. If for some reason the tool needs a restart, please make sure you let the system restart normally. After that let the tool complete its run.
  6. When finished, a log called Fixlog.txt will appear in the same directory the tool is run from.
  7. Attach the logfile Fixlog.txt to your next reply.
 

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Step 1:
Warning: This script was written specifically for this user, for use on that particular machine. Do not run this script on another machine.
  1. Download the attachment fixlist.txt and save it to your desktop.
  2. Right-click on FRST64.exe and select "Run as administrator".
  3. Press the Fix button.
  4. The tool will now process fixlist.txt.
  5. If for some reason the tool needs a restart, please make sure you let the system restart normally. After that let the tool complete its run.
  6. When finished, a log called Fixlog.txt will appear in the same directory the tool is run from.
  7. Attach the logfile Fixlog.txt to your next reply.

Step 2:
Are you able to start Windows Defender through Control Panel and are updates for Windows Defender installed successful ?
 

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I can start defender thru the control panel.
Defender Update doesn't connect to server on first try, on retry it connects
as Up to date. I will have to try it when the next definition pack is released.
Windows update is still the same error 0x80070006
Should I try windows update from the cmd line to see if that works.
 

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Great that Windows Defender now can be started from the Control Panel.

Copy the files C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\cbs.log and C:\Windows\Logs\DISM\dism.log to your desktop.
Zip the copied files and attach the zipfile to your next reply.
 
The error 0x80070006 isn't in the cbs.log nor the dism.log.

Right-click on the Start button and click Run.
Typ POWERSHELL in the input field, then click OK.
A blue window appears.
Typ in the blue window Get-WindowsUpdateLog and press the enter key.
Some text will appear in the blue window. Wait for the message "WindowsUpdate.log written to C:\Users\<username>\Desktop\WindowsUpdate.log".
Close the blue window.

Attach the file C:\Users\<username>\Desktop\WindowsUpdate.log to your next reply.
 
There was a warning. Could not process line 397
I ran windows update from the cmd line and saved a second log. Windowsupdate1.txt
I'm starting to believe that something is wrong with the Settings GUI for windows update and defender.
 

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FRST Scan:
  1. Download the attachment fixlist.txt and save it to your desktop.
  2. Right-click on FRST64.exe and select "Run as administrator".
  3. Press the Fix button.
  4. The tool will now process fixlist.txt.
  5. If for some reason the tool needs a restart, please make sure you let the system restart normally. After that let the tool complete its run.
  6. When finished, a log called Fixlog.txt will appear in the same directory the tool is run from.
  7. Attach the logfile Fixlog.txt to your next reply.
 

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